Word: underslung
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Last week Manhattan's aging, spry Dr. George B. McAuliffe, 81, a retired professor of otology who dabbles in the field of posture correction, voiced sinister warnings against the bust-flattening, underslung flapper figure which causes shifting of vital organs, general internal trouble. Dr. McAuliffe thinks American girls today are pretty good; their neat, trim figures, unhampered by unnecessary clothes, are the best nature has produced in this country. Let them stay that way, advised Dr. McAuliffe, and "let them dress as though it were always summertime...
During the past two decades underslung James Jemail, 47, tipping his hat and toting his 2¼ by 3¼ Speed Graphic, has accosted, questioned and photographed at least 150,000 people. More than 50,000 of his pictures, six to a column and each accompanied by its 50-word answer to the question of the day, have been published...
...Hell and Maria") Dawes, 75, former Vice President who made the underslung pipe famous, quit smoking...
...surveyed in his mind the pictures he'd had taken in the past four or five years, trying to decide which was most appropriate. There was the prep school graduation picture with the underslung jaw and the moronic look around the eyes. Then there was the Red Book picture with that particularly and characteristically harried Freshman look about it. And finally there was the wishfully comic picture in which he was perched on the famous Yale fence immortalized by Professor Hooton's ape pictures. Obviously, there was no solution of the problem to be found here. Finally...
...wise pouches under Mr. Taylor's sad, deepset, clear-green eyes are there by no accident; his stubborn, pugnacious nose, his mailbox-slit mouth, his underslung jaw are all testimonials of the strength and judicial balance of his mind. And good, dead Cardinal William Mundelein of Chicago would be happy to know that the idea he planted with Franklin Roosevelt in 1936-a restoration of relations with the Vatican since it is now a temporal State, not just a religion-has flourished thus solidly in the person of Tycoon Taylor...